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ἐπιδειπνέω

ε-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδειπνέω ἐπιδειπνήσω

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + δειπνέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to eat at second course, eat as a dainty

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιδειπνῶ ἐπιδειπνεῖς ἐπιδειπνεῖ
Dual ἐπιδειπνεῖτον ἐπιδειπνεῖτον
Plural ἐπιδειπνοῦμεν ἐπιδειπνεῖτε ἐπιδειπνοῦσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιδειπνῶ ἐπιδειπνῇς ἐπιδειπνῇ
Dual ἐπιδειπνῆτον ἐπιδειπνῆτον
Plural ἐπιδειπνῶμεν ἐπιδειπνῆτε ἐπιδειπνῶσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐπιδειπνοῖμι ἐπιδειπνοῖς ἐπιδειπνοῖ
Dual ἐπιδειπνοῖτον ἐπιδειπνοίτην
Plural ἐπιδειπνοῖμεν ἐπιδειπνοῖτε ἐπιδειπνοῖεν
ImperativeSingular ἐπιδείπνει ἐπιδειπνείτω
Dual ἐπιδειπνεῖτον ἐπιδειπνείτων
Plural ἐπιδειπνεῖτε ἐπιδειπνούντων, ἐπιδειπνείτωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιδειπνεῖν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιδειπνων ἐπιδειπνουντος ἐπιδειπνουσα ἐπιδειπνουσης ἐπιδειπνουν ἐπιδειπνουντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιδειπνοῦμαι ἐπιδειπνεῖ, ἐπιδειπνῇ ἐπιδειπνεῖται
Dual ἐπιδειπνεῖσθον ἐπιδειπνεῖσθον
Plural ἐπιδειπνούμεθα ἐπιδειπνεῖσθε ἐπιδειπνοῦνται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιδειπνῶμαι ἐπιδειπνῇ ἐπιδειπνῆται
Dual ἐπιδειπνῆσθον ἐπιδειπνῆσθον
Plural ἐπιδειπνώμεθα ἐπιδειπνῆσθε ἐπιδειπνῶνται
OptativeSingular ἐπιδειπνοίμην ἐπιδειπνοῖο ἐπιδειπνοῖτο
Dual ἐπιδειπνοῖσθον ἐπιδειπνοίσθην
Plural ἐπιδειπνοίμεθα ἐπιδειπνοῖσθε ἐπιδειπνοῖντο
ImperativeSingular ἐπιδειπνοῦ ἐπιδειπνείσθω
Dual ἐπιδειπνεῖσθον ἐπιδειπνείσθων
Plural ἐπιδειπνεῖσθε ἐπιδειπνείσθων, ἐπιδειπνείσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιδειπνεῖσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιδειπνουμενος ἐπιδειπνουμενου ἐπιδειπνουμενη ἐπιδειπνουμενης ἐπιδειπνουμενον ἐπιδειπνουμενου

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἶτα λαβὼν κόνισαι λέκιθον, ἵν’ ἐπιδειπνῇσ· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Exodus, lyric3)
  • χοὔτω μὲν ἂν εὖ ποιοῖσ, εἴ σοι πυκνότησ ἔνεστ’ ἐν τῷ τρόπῳ, ὡσ λέγεισ, τούτῳ πάνυ πολλή, εἰ τούσδ’ ἐπίτηδεσ ὥσπερ δημοσίουσ τρέφεισ ἐν τῇ πυκνί, κᾆθ’ ὅταν μή σοι τύχῃ ὄψον ὄν, τούτων ὃσ ἂν ᾖ παχύσ, θύσασ ἐπιδειπνεῖσ. (Aristotle, Choral, antistrophe 11)
  • διὰ ταῦθ’ ὁ πόρνοσ οὗτοσ οὐδὲ τῶν πράσων ἑκάστοτ’ ἐπεδείπνει μεθ’ ἡμῶν τοῦτο δ’ ἦν ἵνα μή τι λυπήσειε τὸν ἐραστὴν φιλῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 30 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. to eat at second course

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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